Some bar and restaurant owners are getting a jump on the statewide smoking ban - and finding new customers in the process.
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Despite gaining an average of nine pounds, a large group of smokers from Wisconsin who quit had a significant improvement in the health of their arteries within a year of their last cigarette.
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Health officials in Wisconsin have won a $9 million federal grant to study the best ways to help people stop smoking. The grant from the National Institutes of Health will recruit 2,300 smokers at a several clinics in south and central Wisconsin, including Aurora Health Care, UW Health, Dean Health System and Mercy Health System. The study will provide both quit-coaching and nicotine medications.
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Starting July 1, smoking in Shorewood will be prohibited not only in restaurants, taverns and other buildings open to the public, but also in parks. That means Shorewood will get a one-year head start on the Wisconsin communities that don't have a local ban.
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Smoking would be banned in restaurants, bars and other businesses starting in July 2010 under a bill the Legislature passed Wednesday.
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A statewide ban on indoor smoking is moving closer to reality, but debate over its merits is far from over.
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A statewide ban on indoor smoking is moving closer to reality, but debate over its merits is far from over.
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As Wisconsin considers what many view as a long-overdue attempt to regulate public smoking in workplaces, including bars and restaurants, I know where the opposition stands because I once stood there, too.
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As Wisconsin considers what many view as a long-overdue attempt to regulate public smoking in workplaces, including bars and restaurants, I know where the opposition stands because I once stood there, too.
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For years, Lila Wald has tried to stop smoking. Nothing - not nicotine patches, not hypnosis - has worked. But rising cigarette taxes might finally do the trick.
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